By now you have no doubt heard or read the story of the new statue being unveiled in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Each state gets two statues and Alabama decided to replace the one of a little known Congressman and Confederate officer and instead install the Helen Keller work, depicting her at the moment when she made the connection between the word water and the physical substance.
You would have to really work hard to write the story without using the name of this state, yet that's exactly what NBC's nightly newscast did. It was just a 20 second "VO"...voice over pictures...yet nobody watching would have any idea of the Alabama connection. Or maybe the recognized the Governor.
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